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Katapult Leadership Associates is a boutique management consulting, training, and coaching firm delivering services to leaders and professionals in North America, Latin America, Africa, and Europe.Counsel senior executive teams and boards concerning culture, business strategy, compliance, operational excellence, and leadership development. Serve as Interim or Fractional COO in small to mid-size businesses to position them for further expansion. Administer leadership, strengths, and personality assessments for identification of future leaders and succession planning. ➢ Develop company-wide budget and strategy for capital generation, revenue growth, and personnel recruiting for a US-based $10MM ed-tech startup in aggressive growth mode.➢ Conduct business case studies for ERP implementations at two mid-sized companies in Latin America.➢ Create business plan for international expansion of a manufacturing company in Latin America.➢ Develop data privacy and cybersecurity risk mitigation plans for a business with thousands of under-age users.➢ Coach senior executives, corporate leaders, and high potential employees in multiple continents and various industries to improve their organizations, teams, and personal performance, and manage their professional careers.➢ Co-facilitate country transformation projects training tens of thousands of trainers on values-based principles.➢ Perform Baldrige Quality and Performance Excellence reviews of organizations in the state of Texas. ➢ Recognized as a thought leader in the subject of transformational and servant leadership (published author and podcaster for Spanish-speaking audiences). Serve as Spanish interpreter for world-renown public speakers.➢ 280% revenue boost achieved in two years by negotiating collaborative agreements with outside contractors to expand services offered.➢ Deliver joint leadership development efforts with NGOs Crown Financial Ministries, Faith Driven Entrepreneur, and EQUIP.

Devise strategic plans for expansion into Europe and the Americas. Coach owners of small to mid-size business in various countries to run their organizations following operational excellence and business development best practices.

The John Maxwell Team is the fastest growing leadership development, coaching and training organization in the world with 35,000+ members in more than 100 countries, founded by the #1 leadership expert.Advised division leadership team and chairperson of the Advisory Council. Served as senior faculty member in the areas of leadership development and public speaking training thousands of leaders in over 20 countries.

Oversaw operations, profit and loss, and conference events involving training services for public speaking, coaching, training, sales, and leadership development for Spanish-speaking clientele. Directed digital product and service development and management. Supervised teaching team and 50+ contractors and volunteers via six direct reports.➢ Transformed an underperforming project in less than five months by identifying project management issues and resolving cultural misunderstandings, resulting in a job offer for president of the newly established Spanish division.➢ Served as Chairman of the division’s President’s Advisory Council with members from 10+ countries.➢ Doubled anticipated growth by leading the international team in the first year of the division’s conception with expectations to double the customer base again within the second year.➢ Formed diverse senior leadership team to include 50% women and make inroads to increase gender equality across the division.

Served as product manager for various self-development courses. Managed their translation into Spanish, and launched them commercially to customers in Latin America.

Provide strategic direction and tactical oversight of ministry operations. • Implemented Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) to increase operational excellence and discipline.• Conducted strategic planning sessions leading to implementation of new culture and corporate values.• Developed new coaching and training service offerings that are better positioned to meet the needs of missionaries across the world.• Created new leadership development virtual academy based on online Learning Management System.

Led compliance and incident prevention efforts for the research and development and technology divisions. Forged cyber-security and data privacy risk management strategies for R&D organization and implemented Lean Sigma solutions for IT department. Managed Safety and Health incident-prevention program.➢ Devised an information risk management (IRM) career track across all IT functions, improving career management and progress of 300 IRM professionals by identifying entry and exit points and rotational assignments.

Managed unit's P&L and fostered operational excellence and business continuity for 500+ IT staff members. Managed 35+ personnel via nine direct reports. Instituted best practices, a culture of security and compliance in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process, and a data privacy program.➢ $5 billion business continuity and disaster recovery operation led during incident activations for more than 3,500 employees. ➢ Recognized as best in class by adopting a program in compliance with European data privacy regulations that identified and protected business procedures utilizing the personal data of 3,500 staff on three continents.➢ 160% surge in reliability and 75% reduction of major incidents realized by implementing operational discipline and excellence, based on ITIL and ITSM principles.➢ Improved controls to manage and secure crucial intellectual property valued at hundreds of millions of dollars.➢ Unveiled servant and transformation leadership principles in the IT department and originated a leadership development conference to support efforts, doubling attendance after the first year and continuing to serve as a favored leadership event.➢ 20% of personnel rated as top performers, successive staff rated as excellent, and the unit recognized as a producer of leaders by revamping a team experiencing integration and performance challenges through the combination of individual strengths to create a cohesive atmosphere and recruiting servant leaders interested in aiding peer growth.

Designed standard risk management processes, established data loss prevention, and implemented security efforts to protect intellectual property and staff privacy. Assessed and monitored undeveloped and newly developed technologies for future use.➢ Established a security technology investment prioritization process to safeguard intellectual property, trade secrets, and data privacy through extensive research, leveraging key vendor relationships, and transforming investments in security technologies.

Conducted digital and physical risk assessments of technology implementations. ➢ Sponsored the first cyber-security project with the US Department of Homeland Security in collaboration with various energy firms to protect supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and distributed control systems (DCS) networks, securing manufacturing and distribution systems as part of the nation’s critical infrastructure that heralded increased acceptance of specialized security technology.➢ Directed SAP Security Compliance project redesigning business processes (i.e., delegation of authority and segregation of duties) using SAP's GRC tool. Supervised Sarbanes-Oxley IT compliance team.

Led $2 billion Accounts Payable function for North American operations. Managed $50 million Procurement and Travel and Entertainment Card programs. Implemented a business continuity plan for the Accounts Payable function. Redesigned SAP system security to mitigate segregation of duties issues. ➢ $3.25 million in loss avoidance and identified recoveries achieved by instituting a payment and contract audit function to reduce duplicate payments and recover payments made in error.➢ $100,000 saved annually, 25% cutback in manual invoicing obtained, and 30% discount in personnel expenses resolved by establishing electronic invoicing systems, EDI and XML.➢ $70,000 retained in the first six months of employment by assessing business supply chain processes.

Conducted integrated operational and IT audits, using COBIT and COSO, while directing staff assigned to audit projects. Managed team responsible for software development, implementation, and application support projects using the Agile software development methodology.➢ $2.5 million identified in potential recoveries from contract audits.➢ 10% of applications identified as obsolete and retired by benchmarking the software development life cycle and the total cost of application ownership.